Myth or Truth: the First Charge in the Battery Cell Need to Take 8 to 12 hours?

Article date: 16.12.11

When you buy a new phone, it's crazy to be home soon and play with it, right? Turn upside down each function, add custom ringtones, photos, finally, let the newly acquired unit to your face. It is also during these times that is the famous question: is it necessary to let the phone charge for more than 8 hours in the first battery?

Before beginning the explanations and answers to the question, is that the user has good knowledge about two issues: the types of battery on the market and when a battery can be considered addicted. So, to the explanations.

Battery Types

There are three types of batteries best known today:

Nickel and Cadmium (NiCd) - the use of these batteries is not so common in today's times, since they are harmful to health and have the memory effect, ie, easily addictive;

Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) - can be considered an improvement in NiCd batteries. They are less susceptible to memory effect and are not as harmful. You can still find some notebooks, digital cameras and mobile phones with this older type of battery;

Lithium Ion (Li-ion) - are the most common today, because they did not have problems with memory effect. Also, are not toxic.

Battery "addicted"

The main cause of the memory effect is undoubtedly the battery without recharging it has spent his entire load or withdraw it without charge this is finished completely.

The main "effect" of addiction battery durability is reduced load. That is, if your cell phone before he could be without charge for five days and now you need to load an entire day can be sure that the device's battery is hooked. For details about battery read the article: "Batteries: everything you need to know about them."

AND THE FIRST CHARGE, EVEN NEED TO TAKE?

This is one of the key questions raised when it comes to cell phone battery. In fact there is a rule establishing the time of the first battery charge, is only indicated that it is larger than the other charges. The amount of hours that the machine must be plugged in at first varies widely among manufacturers.

In Nokia phones, for example, indicated that the first three loads are beat in 8 hours. As for the handsets from LG and Motorola, just the message "Charging complete" appears on the screen. Below the load time for most common brands of cell phones on the market:
Nokia: 3x 8 hours;
Samsung: 1x 4 hours;
Gradient: 3x 4 hours;
LG and Motorola: Even the message "Charging complete" is displayed;
Sony Ericsson: 1x 3 hours;
Benq Siemens: 1x 10 hours.

Remember that the phone should be off while charging, at least in the first battery charge. Nor is indicated to remove the appliance, thereby interrupting the charging.
The best thing to do in such situations is to read the instrument manual. Some companies release newer versions of the booklets on their websites and you can access all free.

So if the manual that came with the unit does not say much about the first time for the battery, look in the portals help the manufacturer to the consumer. In addition, many sites also have online customer support.

Common sense also tells

Another common situation found in stores is the people passing wrong information to the consumer. How many times have you heard or received instructions like: "The first charge must be at least 24 hours.." Well, common sense also counts a lot in these hours.

While many have the battery load limiter, leaving a unit charge for more than 8 hours can bring some consequences, addictive as the battery or - in extreme cases, but not rare - burn unit. Remember that anything in excess is harmful when!

Unfortunately there is a clearer answer to the question of the first charge on the batteries. The technology used in each unit is different and therefore each requires a special care. Just to clarify, the batteries of the type Li-ion batteries are more difficult to rig, but that does not mean it does not happen.

A mobile phone, if well maintained, can last several years, unless the problem is in manufacturing. By following some simple recommendations you can spend less money and get rid of many headaches